"When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones."

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Source : Peter De Vries (2014). “The Tunnel of Love: A Novel”, p.85, University of Chicago Press

#Home Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Broken Quotes

“If there was a blog with five listeners or viewers, I had to be on it. Now I have to be on fewer media, but more substantive media.”
“One felt that the mountains are not completed. The builders are still at work. Stones come rolling and jumping from the upper scaffolding and often from the chasms one hears the thundering as the gods of the mountains change their minds.”
“You know how I feel about you, Bluefur. I'd do my best to make you happy, I promise. And I'll love your kits as though they were my own.”
“Your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love yourself.”
“The earth is literally our mother, not only because we depend on her for nurture and shelter but even more because the human sepcies has been shaped by her in the womb of evolution. Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature.”
“Imagine if I had a real weapon!”
“The end of World War I also marked the end of bourgeois culture. An inner emptiness developed that, in the 19th and 20th centuries, paved the way for two ideologies that dragged Europe and the world into an abyss and plunged it into a catastrophe.”
“It was Sci-Fi and fantasy that got me reading, and Sci-Fi writers in particular have pack rat minds. They introduce all sorts of interesting themes and ideas into their books, and so for me it was a short leap to go from the fantasy and Sci-Fi genres to folklore, mythology, ancient history and philosophy. I did not read philosophy because I set out to become a philosopher; I read it because it looked interesting.”

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